unusual spellings of common names - classic or dud

Paul with an R???

you mean like "PORL"? yeah thats weird.

What about those of us who can't help that there are several accepted versions of a common name? (And our pretentious parents saddled us with the most unusual.)

iain

pretentiousness.

CLASSIC
http://www.homeruncards.com/imagesrc/dwyane-wade.jpg

Iain's alright. Caren/Caron's alright.

Dayv is just rong.

Only dud is you can't find a bicycle license plate with YOUR name. "I'm not Abigail! Where is my extra B? Fuck, I'll never look cool on a bike."

I tried to change my nickname to Kaet during 8th grade but it didn't catch on. :-(

classic if it's because the nurse got it RONG tho

k8

kaet buhs – teh hownds of loev

I call you K8, I hope it doesn't make you ir8.

I am used to K8. (But lost my temper once when a friend called me K9 - she was meaning it all 'like M9 is even better than being a M8' and I was all I'M NOT THE SODDING TIN DOG!!!)

It wasn't LOLspeak then coz there was no web when I was in 8th grade.

God, I feel old. The web wasn't even though of until I was in uni.

When were sms text messages invented?

ANYTWO FIVE ELEVENIS? (Whip Inflation Now)

Tee hee hee.

Co-worker at last place was named Joesph, which when googled isn't that uncommon but I had never seen it. My sister and I went through a grade school phase where we spelled our nicknames differently every year. My favorite of hers was Kairé.

Iain's alright. Caren/Caron's alright.

Caron and Iain, fine. But Caren - no. This is not acceptable.

does anyone on ILX want to admit to an unusually spelled common name?

"Co-worker at last place was named Joesph, which when googled isn't that uncommon"

there are a lot of typos on the internet, though?

Paul with an R

Isn't this mandatory in the land of Scoobie-Do?

nabisco's name is actually pronounced "ned flanders"

nabisco's name is actually pronounced "ned flanders"

-- Rock Hardy, 29 August 2008 15:45 (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

then how come ILX doesn't google proof n£d fl@nd£er$??

True darraghmac, but it does look like quite a few people's mothers came up with the same innovation.

DV, my nickname is not a usual spelling, but my full name is.

Well, I'm actually a Katharine (as opposed to the more common Katherine or even Catherine) but that's a very old and quite accepted alternate spelling dating back to the middle ages!

Then again, in the middle ages, all spellings were alternate. So how long does a name alternate have to be around to gain acceptance?

Abbott just did! xposts re ILXors with unusual spellings

Our local paper recently had a bonny baby competition and it was full of kids called Mayson and Shivawn and Katelynne and Dyanne and shit like that.

I have a mate called Kristefer

When I was 7 I for some reason decided the name Marcus was more interesting than Mark so I started writing my name Markuse (I'd also decided I was French, and thought adding an E on the end made it French). Luckily this phase only last a couple of months.

I love all the variant spellings personally, so vote definitely Classek.

Liar, this was in your teens because of El Dorado, wasn't it? xpost

Well, I'm actually a Katharine (as opposed to the more common Katherine or even Catherine) but that's a very old and quite accepted alternate spelling dating back to the middle ages!

as my old gf was always at pains to explain with violence to anyone who called her Catherine or Katherine.

n.b. Masonic Boom is not my old gf.

I was nearly a Katharine, after Katharine Ross. Except that would have made my name, er, Katharine Ross, so my parents decided not to bother.

My parents never had any intention of my being called anything but Kate, so I don't know why they bothered with the Katharine bit, let alone an archaic spelling thereof. It makes it an awful pain because different IDs have different names on them which means I get flagged for terrism/money laundering/etc. when things like my bank account name and passport name and drivers licence don't match.

My parents are obsessive enemies of name-shortening, which is why my real name is the unshortenable Eeyan.

Wow, that's a distinctive spelling. Is that why you asked?

IRL my name's always been shortened to Tom, so much so that people seeing my full name usually have to double-take before they realise who it is. I do have Katharine's problem with mismatched id as well.

It took me a while to realise that you were referring to me - that's how little I ever use Katharine for anything!

(Have the same problem in the doctor's office. I had to register as Katharine - which they got down WRONG as Katherine - and they will not call me anything else. I'll be sitting in the waiting room with the nurse going "Katherine? Katherine?" for a minute or two before I realise they mean me, i.e. KATE.)

((I mean, FFS, I answer to "Boom!" more quickly than I do Katharine.))

Can I grump about all the people misspelling my not-terrible-unusual first name wrong ALL THE FUCKING TIME? It's only five letters! Two syllables! It's pretty much phonetic! One popular broadband provider took my registration details over the phone, I spelt my name twice, second time using the phonetic alphabet, for him and I still have my customer email address now registered as ELSA. I mean, what?

not terriblY unusual. It's not terrible either though.

Massive fucking dud.

What about people who spell Thomas with a U?

Classic. Variation is good, and things that uptight prigs like to sneer at are always worth defending.

yeah its classic really and nothing to be snobby about.

... although occasionally you do see kids names and think "your parents just can't spell can they?"

My middle name is Fredrik, which may not be uncommon for those of you from Ikea, but most people try to spell it Fredrick or Frederick*. I just gave up for a while when I was younger "Sure, add all the letters you want man, if that makes it easier for you."

*My namesake is a Swedish ancestor named Fredrik, but my parents also wanted it to be a tribute to abolitionist Frederick Douglass (D0uglas Fredrik). Thanking god they didn't name me Douglass.

I have friends who named their house after a famous poltical figure, only they mis-spelled the name.

Fatcher?

Unusual spellings don't bother me so much, but parents who add unnecessary Ys and Is to their kids' names otherwise traditional names do. Seems overly deliberate and pretentious.

Examples: Frederyk, Wynter, Brandi

Well, I'm actually a Katharine (as opposed to the more common Katherine or even Catherine) but that's a very old and quite accepted alternate spelling dating back to the middle ages!

Then again, in the middle ages, all spellings were alternate. So how long does a name alternate have to be around to gain acceptance?

-- Masonic Boom, Friday, August 29, 2008 10:48 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

hey me too, yo

but my moms explaination is that i was named for katharine of aragon the exiled queen. wtf?

i guess i keep my head, right?

but as for others spelling it when they ask if iots right more often that not these days i say 'eh, close enough'

Unusual spellings don't bother me so much, but parents who add unnecessary Ys and Is to their kids' names otherwise traditional names do. Seems overly deliberate and pretentious.

Examples: Frederyk

I agree with your main point, but that's kind of a weird one to single out, since that's a Polish version of "Frederick" and not an Anglo invention (though "Fryderyk" is a more common spelling).

http://www.pianosociety.com/cms/pics/chopin.jpg

Grrrr, do not belittle my orthography!

When I used to tell people my 1st name it was nearly always followed by a "But what's your first name?"

True about Frederyk -- though my point would stand for a couple with no Polish background whatsoever, unaware that it had some history as a legitimate spelling.